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The Perils of Gold Fever

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 3, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 38.

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The Perils of Gold Fever

At Beatty, Nev., in the heart of the new gold-fields, the first railroad train has been celebrated. This is a branch of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles road, and it is said that its completion to the very mouths of some of the big gold-producing mines will be “the signal for a mining rush such as the world has not seen since the days of ‘49.” The next thing in order will be a few financial successes and thousands of disappointments. Very few human ailments are more disastrous than the “gold fever.”